80_FR_58449 80 FR 58262 - Fee for Using a Rare Pediatric Disease Priority Review Voucher in Fiscal Year 2016

80 FR 58262 - Fee for Using a Rare Pediatric Disease Priority Review Voucher in Fiscal Year 2016

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Food and Drug Administration

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 187 (September 28, 2015)

Page Range58262-58264
FR Document2015-24508

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the Agency) is announcing the fee rate for using a rare pediatric disease priority review voucher for fiscal year (FY) 2016. The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the FD&C Act), as amended by the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act (FDASIA), authorizes FDA to determine and collect rare pediatric disease priority review user fees for certain applications for review of human drug or biological products when those applications use a rare pediatric disease priority review voucher. These vouchers are awarded to the sponsors of certain rare pediatric disease product applications, submitted 90 days or more after July 9, 2012, upon FDA approval of such applications. The amount of the fee for using a rare pediatric disease priority review voucher is determined each FY based on the difference between the average cost incurred by FDA in the review of a human drug application subject to priority review in the previous FY, and the average cost incurred in the review of an application that is not subject to priority review in the previous FY. This notice establishes the rare pediatric disease priority review fee rate for FY 2016 and outlines the payment procedures for such fees.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Food and Drug Administration

[Docket No. FDA-2014-N-0007]


Fee for Using a Rare Pediatric Disease Priority Review Voucher in 
Fiscal Year 2016

AGENCY: Food and Drug Administration, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA or the Agency) is 
announcing the fee rate for using a rare pediatric disease priority 
review

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voucher for fiscal year (FY) 2016. The Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic 
Act (the FD&C Act), as amended by the Food and Drug Administration 
Safety and Innovation Act (FDASIA), authorizes FDA to determine and 
collect rare pediatric disease priority review user fees for certain 
applications for review of human drug or biological products when those 
applications use a rare pediatric disease priority review voucher. 
These vouchers are awarded to the sponsors of certain rare pediatric 
disease product applications, submitted 90 days or more after July 9, 
2012, upon FDA approval of such applications. The amount of the fee for 
using a rare pediatric disease priority review voucher is determined 
each FY based on the difference between the average cost incurred by 
FDA in the review of a human drug application subject to priority 
review in the previous FY, and the average cost incurred in the review 
of an application that is not subject to priority review in the 
previous FY. This notice establishes the rare pediatric disease 
priority review fee rate for FY 2016 and outlines the payment 
procedures for such fees.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Robert J. Marcarelli, Office of 
Financial Management, Food and Drug Administration, 8455 Colesville 
Rd., COLE-14202F, Silver Spring, MD 20993-0002, 301-796-7223.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

    Section 908 of FDASIA (Pub. L. 112-144) added section 529 to the 
FD&C Act (21 U.S.C. 360ff). In section 529 of the FD&C Act, Congress 
encouraged development of new human drugs and biological products for 
prevention and treatment of certain rare pediatric diseases by offering 
additional incentives for obtaining FDA approval of such products. 
Under section 529 of the FD&C Act, the sponsor of an eligible human 
drug application submitted 90 days or more after July 9, 2012, for a 
rare pediatric disease (as defined in section 529(a)(3)) shall receive 
a priority review voucher upon approval of the rare pediatric disease 
product application. The recipient of a rare pediatric disease priority 
review voucher may either use the voucher for a future human drug 
application submitted to FDA under section 505(b)(1) of the FD&C Act 
(21 U.S.C. 355(b)(1)) or section 351(a) of the Public Health Service 
Act (42 U.S.C. 262(a)), or transfer (including by sale) the voucher to 
another party that may then use it for a human drug application 
submitted to FDA under section 505(b)(1) of the FD&C Act or section 
351(a) of the Public Health Service Act. A priority review is a review 
conducted with a Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) goal date of 6 
months after the receipt or filing date, depending on the type of 
application. Information regarding PDUFA goals is available at http://www.fda.gov/downloads/forindustry/userfees/prescriptiondruguserfee/ucm270412.pdf.
    The applicant that uses a rare pediatric disease priority review 
voucher is entitled to a priority review of its eligible human drug 
application, but must pay FDA a rare pediatric disease priority review 
user fee in addition to any fee required by PDUFA for the application. 
Information regarding the rare pediatric disease priority review 
voucher program is available at: http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/DevelopmentApprovalProcess/DevelopmentResources/ucm375479.htm.
    This notice establishes the rare pediatric disease priority review 
fee rate for FY 2016 at $2,727,000 and outlines FDA's procedures for 
payment of rare pediatric disease priority review user fees. This rate 
is effective on October 1, 2015, and will remain in effect through 
September 30, 2016.

II. Rare Pediatric Priority Review User Fee for FY 2016

    Under section 529(c)(2) of the FD&C Act, the amount of the rare 
pediatric disease priority review user fee is determined each fiscal 
year based on the difference between the average cost incurred by FDA 
in the review of a human drug application subject to priority review in 
the previous fiscal year, and the average cost incurred by FDA in the 
review of a human drug application that is not subject to priority 
review in the previous fiscal year. The rare pediatric disease priority 
review voucher fee is intended to cover the incremental costs for FDA 
to do a priority review on a human drug application that would 
otherwise get a standard review. The formula provides the Agency with 
the added resources to conduct a priority review while still ensuring a 
robust rare pediatric disease priority review voucher program that is 
consistent with the Agency's public health goal of encouraging the 
development of new human drugs and biological products for rare 
pediatric diseases.
    A priority review is a review conducted with a PDUFA goal date of 6 
months after the receipt or filing date, depending on the type of 
application. Under the PDUFA goals letter, FDA has committed to 
reviewing and acting on 90 percent of the applications granted priority 
review status within this expedited timeframe. Normally, an application 
for a human drug or biological product will qualify for priority review 
if the product is intended to treat a serious condition and, if 
approved, would provide a significant improvement in safety or 
effectiveness. An application that does not receive a priority 
designation will receive a standard review. Under the PDUFA goals 
letter, FDA has committed to reviewing and acting on 90 percent of 
standard applications within 10 months of the receipt or filing date 
depending on the type of application. A priority review involves a more 
intensive level of effort and a higher level of resources than a 
standard review.
    Section 529 of the FD&C Act specifies that the rare pediatric 
disease priority review voucher fee amount must be based on the 
difference between the average cost incurred by the Agency in the 
review of a human drug application subject to a priority review in the 
previous fiscal year, and the average cost incurred by the Agency in 
the review of a human drug application not subject to a priority review 
in the previous fiscal year. FDA is setting a fee for FY 2016, which is 
to be based on standard cost data from the previous fiscal year, FY 
2015. However, the FY 2015 submission cohort has not been closed out 
yet, thus the cost data for FY 2015 are not complete. The latest year 
for which FDA has complete cost data is FY 2014. Furthermore, because 
FDA has never tracked the cost of reviewing applications that get 
priority review as a separate cost subset, FDA estimated this cost 
based on other data that the Agency has tracked. FDA uses data that the 
Agency estimates and publishes on its Web site each year--standard 
costs for review. FDA does not publish a standard cost for ``the review 
of a human drug application subject to priority review in the previous 
fiscal year.'' However, we expect all such applications would contain 
clinical data. The standard cost application categories with clinical 
data that FDA publishes each year are: (1) New drug applications (NDAs) 
for a new molecular entity (NME) with clinical data and (2) biologics 
license applications (BLAs) with clinical data.
    The standard cost worksheets for FY 2014 show standard costs 
(rounded to the nearest thousand dollars) of $5,646,000 for an NME NDA, 
and $5,533,000 for a BLA. Based on these standard costs, the total cost 
to review the 48 applications in these two categories in FY 2014 (30 
NME NDAs and 18 BLAs with clinical data) was

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$268,974,000. (Note: These numbers exclude the President's Emergency 
Plan for AIDS Relief NDAs; no investigational new drug (IND) review 
costs are included in this amount.) Twenty-nine of these applications 
(20 NDAs and 9 BLAs) received priority review, which would mean that 
the remaining 19 received standard reviews. Because a priority review 
compresses a review schedule that ordinarily takes 10 months into 6 
months, FDA estimates that a multiplier of 1.67 (10 months divided by 6 
months) should be applied to non-priority review costs in estimating 
the effort and cost of a priority review as compared to a standard 
review. This multiplier is consistent with published research on this 
subject which supports a priority review multiplier in the range of 
1.48 to 2.35 (Ref. 1). The multiplier derived by FDA falls well below 
the midpoint of this range. Using FY 2014 figures, the costs of a 
priority and standard review are estimated using the following formula:

(29 [alpha] x 1.67) + (19 [alpha]) = $268,974,000

    Where ``[alpha]'' is the cost of a standard review and ``[alpha] 
times 1.67'' is the cost of a priority review. Using this formula, the 
cost of a standard review for NME NDAs and BLAs is calculated to be 
$3,989,000 (rounded to the nearest thousand dollars) and the cost of a 
priority review for NME NDAs and BLAs is 1.67 times that amount, or 
$6,662,000 (rounded to the nearest thousand dollars). The difference 
between these two cost estimates, or $2,673,000, represents the 
incremental cost of conducting a priority review rather than a standard 
review.
    For the FY 2016 fee, FDA will need to adjust the FY 2014 
incremental cost by the average amount by which FDA's average costs 
increased in the 3 years prior to FY 2015, to adjust the FY 2014 amount 
for cost increases in FY 2015. That adjustment, published in the 
Federal Register on August 3, 2015 (see 80 FR 46028 at 46029), is 
2.0266 percent for the most recent year, not compounded. Increasing the 
FY 2014 incremental priority review cost of $2,673,000 by 2.0266 
percent results in an estimated cost of $2,727,000 (rounded to the 
nearest thousand dollars). This is the rare pediatric disease priority 
review user fee amount for FY 2016 that must be submitted with a 
priority review voucher for a human drug application in FY 2016, in 
addition to any PDUFA fee that is required for such an application.

III. Fee Schedule for FY 2016

    The fee rate for FY 2016 is set out in table 1:

  Table 1--Rare Pediatric Disease Priority Review Schedule for FY 2016
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               Fee category                     Fee rate for FY 2016
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Application submitted with a rare           $2,727,000
 pediatric disease priority review voucher
 in addition to the normal PDUFA Fee.
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IV. Implementation of Rare Pediatric Disease Priority Review User Fee

    Under section 529(c)(4)(A) of the FD&C Act, the priority review 
user fee is due (i.e. the obligation to pay the fee is incurred) when a 
sponsor notifies FDA of its intent to use the voucher. Section 
529(c)(4)(B) of the FD&C Act specifies that the application will be 
considered incomplete if the priority review user fee and all other 
applicable user fees are not paid in accordance with FDA payment 
procedures. In addition, section 529(c)(4)(C) specifies that FDA may 
not grant a waiver, exemption, reduction, or refund of any fees due and 
payable under this section of the FD&C Act. Beginning with FDA's 
appropriation for FY 2015, the annual appropriation language states 
specifically that priority review user fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 
360n and 360ff (section 529 of the FD&C Act) shall be credited to this 
account, to remain available until expended.'' (Pub. L. 113-235, 
Section 5, Division A, Title VI).
    The rare pediatric disease priority review fee established in the 
new fee schedule must be paid for any application that is received on 
or after October 1, 2015. In order to comply with this requirement, the 
sponsor must contact FDA before providing official notification of its 
intent to use the voucher.
    FDA will issue an invoice to the sponsor who has incurred a rare 
pediatric disease priority review voucher fee when it receives the 
sponsor's notification of intent to use the voucher. The invoice will 
include instructions on how to pay the fee via wire transfer or check.
    As noted in section II, if a sponsor uses a rare pediatric disease 
priority review voucher for a human drug application, the sponsor would 
incur the rare pediatric disease priority review voucher fee in 
addition to any PDUFA fee that is required for the application. The 
sponsor would need to follow FDA's normal procedures for timely payment 
of the PDUFA fee for the human drug application.

IV. Reference

    The following reference has been placed on display in the Division 
of Dockets Management (see ADDRESSES), and may be seen by interested 
person between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday through Friday.

1. Ridley, D. B., H. G. Grabowski, and J. L. Moe, ``Developing Drugs 
for Developing Countries,'' Health Affairs, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 313-
324, 2006.

    Dated: September 22, 2015.
Leslie Kux,
Associate Commissioner for Policy.
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                                              voucher for fiscal year (FY) 2016. The                  351(a) of the Public Health Service Act.              90 percent of the applications granted
                                              Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act                    A priority review is a review conducted               priority review status within this
                                              (the FD&C Act), as amended by the Food                  with a Prescription Drug User Fee Act                 expedited timeframe. Normally, an
                                              and Drug Administration Safety and                      (PDUFA) goal date of 6 months after the               application for a human drug or
                                              Innovation Act (FDASIA), authorizes                     receipt or filing date, depending on the              biological product will qualify for
                                              FDA to determine and collect rare                       type of application. Information                      priority review if the product is
                                              pediatric disease priority review user                  regarding PDUFA goals is available at                 intended to treat a serious condition
                                              fees for certain applications for review                http://www.fda.gov/downloads/                         and, if approved, would provide a
                                              of human drug or biological products                    forindustry/userfees/                                 significant improvement in safety or
                                              when those applications use a rare                      prescriptiondruguserfee/                              effectiveness. An application that does
                                              pediatric disease priority review                       ucm270412.pdf.                                        not receive a priority designation will
                                              voucher. These vouchers are awarded to                    The applicant that uses a rare                      receive a standard review. Under the
                                              the sponsors of certain rare pediatric                  pediatric disease priority review                     PDUFA goals letter, FDA has committed
                                              disease product applications, submitted                 voucher is entitled to a priority review              to reviewing and acting on 90 percent of
                                              90 days or more after July 9, 2012, upon                of its eligible human drug application,               standard applications within 10 months
                                              FDA approval of such applications. The                  but must pay FDA a rare pediatric                     of the receipt or filing date depending
                                              amount of the fee for using a rare                      disease priority review user fee in                   on the type of application. A priority
                                              pediatric disease priority review                       addition to any fee required by PDUFA                 review involves a more intensive level
                                              voucher is determined each FY based on                  for the application. Information                      of effort and a higher level of resources
                                              the difference between the average cost                 regarding the rare pediatric disease                  than a standard review.
                                              incurred by FDA in the review of a                      priority review voucher program is                       Section 529 of the FD&C Act specifies
                                              human drug application subject to                       available at: http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/               that the rare pediatric disease priority
                                              priority review in the previous FY, and                 DevelopmentApprovalProcess/                           review voucher fee amount must be
                                              the average cost incurred in the review                 DevelopmentResources/                                 based on the difference between the
                                              of an application that is not subject to                ucm375479.htm.                                        average cost incurred by the Agency in
                                              priority review in the previous FY. This                  This notice establishes the rare                    the review of a human drug application
                                              notice establishes the rare pediatric                   pediatric disease priority review fee rate            subject to a priority review in the
                                              disease priority review fee rate for FY                 for FY 2016 at $2,727,000 and outlines                previous fiscal year, and the average
                                              2016 and outlines the payment                           FDA’s procedures for payment of rare                  cost incurred by the Agency in the
                                              procedures for such fees.                               pediatric disease priority review user                review of a human drug application not
                                                                                                      fees. This rate is effective on October 1,            subject to a priority review in the
                                              FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
                                                                                                      2015, and will remain in effect through               previous fiscal year. FDA is setting a fee
                                              Robert J. Marcarelli, Office of Financial               September 30, 2016.                                   for FY 2016, which is to be based on
                                              Management, Food and Drug                                                                                     standard cost data from the previous
                                              Administration, 8455 Colesville Rd.,                    II. Rare Pediatric Priority Review User
                                                                                                      Fee for FY 2016                                       fiscal year, FY 2015. However, the FY
                                              COLE–14202F, Silver Spring, MD                                                                                2015 submission cohort has not been
                                              20993–0002, 301–796–7223.                                  Under section 529(c)(2) of the FD&C                closed out yet, thus the cost data for FY
                                              SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:                              Act, the amount of the rare pediatric                 2015 are not complete. The latest year
                                                                                                      disease priority review user fee is                   for which FDA has complete cost data
                                              I. Background
                                                                                                      determined each fiscal year based on the              is FY 2014. Furthermore, because FDA
                                                 Section 908 of FDASIA (Pub. L. 112–                  difference between the average cost                   has never tracked the cost of reviewing
                                              144) added section 529 to the FD&C Act                  incurred by FDA in the review of a                    applications that get priority review as
                                              (21 U.S.C. 360ff). In section 529 of the                human drug application subject to                     a separate cost subset, FDA estimated
                                              FD&C Act, Congress encouraged                           priority review in the previous fiscal                this cost based on other data that the
                                              development of new human drugs and                      year, and the average cost incurred by                Agency has tracked. FDA uses data that
                                              biological products for prevention and                  FDA in the review of a human drug                     the Agency estimates and publishes on
                                              treatment of certain rare pediatric                     application that is not subject to priority           its Web site each year—standard costs
                                              diseases by offering additional                         review in the previous fiscal year. The               for review. FDA does not publish a
                                              incentives for obtaining FDA approval                   rare pediatric disease priority review                standard cost for ‘‘the review of a
                                              of such products. Under section 529 of                  voucher fee is intended to cover the                  human drug application subject to
                                              the FD&C Act, the sponsor of an eligible                incremental costs for FDA to do a                     priority review in the previous fiscal
                                              human drug application submitted 90                     priority review on a human drug                       year.’’ However, we expect all such
                                              days or more after July 9, 2012, for a rare             application that would otherwise get a                applications would contain clinical
                                              pediatric disease (as defined in section                standard review. The formula provides                 data. The standard cost application
                                              529(a)(3)) shall receive a priority review              the Agency with the added resources to                categories with clinical data that FDA
                                              voucher upon approval of the rare                       conduct a priority review while still                 publishes each year are: (1) New drug
                                              pediatric disease product application.                  ensuring a robust rare pediatric disease              applications (NDAs) for a new
                                              The recipient of a rare pediatric disease               priority review voucher program that is               molecular entity (NME) with clinical
                                              priority review voucher may either use                  consistent with the Agency’s public                   data and (2) biologics license
                                              the voucher for a future human drug                     health goal of encouraging the                        applications (BLAs) with clinical data.
                                              application submitted to FDA under                      development of new human drugs and                       The standard cost worksheets for FY
                                              section 505(b)(1) of the FD&C Act (21                   biological products for rare pediatric                2014 show standard costs (rounded to
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                                              U.S.C. 355(b)(1)) or section 351(a) of the              diseases.                                             the nearest thousand dollars) of
                                              Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C.                       A priority review is a review                      $5,646,000 for an NME NDA, and
                                              262(a)), or transfer (including by sale)                conducted with a PDUFA goal date of 6                 $5,533,000 for a BLA. Based on these
                                              the voucher to another party that may                   months after the receipt or filing date,              standard costs, the total cost to review
                                              then use it for a human drug application                depending on the type of application.                 the 48 applications in these two
                                              submitted to FDA under section                          Under the PDUFA goals letter, FDA has                 categories in FY 2014 (30 NME NDAs
                                              505(b)(1) of the FD&C Act or section                    committed to reviewing and acting on                  and 18 BLAs with clinical data) was


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                                              $268,974,000. (Note: These numbers                      III. Fee Schedule for FY 2016                           FDA’s normal procedures for timely
                                              exclude the President’s Emergency Plan                    The fee rate for FY 2016 is set out in                payment of the PDUFA fee for the
                                              for AIDS Relief NDAs; no                                table 1:                                                human drug application.
                                              investigational new drug (IND) review                                                                           IV. Reference
                                              costs are included in this amount.)                       TABLE 1—RARE PEDIATRIC DISEASE
                                              Twenty-nine of these applications (20                                                      The following reference has been
                                                                                                        PRIORITY REVIEW SCHEDULE FOR placed on display in the Division of
                                              NDAs and 9 BLAs) received priority                        FY 2016
                                              review, which would mean that the                                                        Dockets Management (see ADDRESSES),
                                              remaining 19 received standard reviews.                                                                         and may be seen by interested person
                                                                                                                                               Fee rate for
                                              Because a priority review compresses a                            Fee category                    FY 2016       between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., Monday
                                              review schedule that ordinarily takes 10                                                                        through Friday.
                                              months into 6 months, FDA estimates                     Application submitted with a             $2,727,000     1. Ridley, D. B., H. G. Grabowski, and J. L.
                                                                                                        rare pediatric disease priority                            Moe, ‘‘Developing Drugs for Developing
                                              that a multiplier of 1.67 (10 months                      review voucher in addition to                              Countries,’’ Health Affairs, vol. 25, no. 2,
                                              divided by 6 months) should be applied                    the normal PDUFA Fee.                                      pp. 313–324, 2006.
                                              to non-priority review costs in
                                              estimating the effort and cost of a                                                                               Dated: September 22, 2015.
                                                                                                      IV. Implementation of Rare Pediatric
                                              priority review as compared to a                                                                                Leslie Kux,
                                                                                                      Disease Priority Review User Fee
                                              standard review. This multiplier is                                                                             Associate Commissioner for Policy.
                                              consistent with published research on                      Under section 529(c)(4)(A) of the                    [FR Doc. 2015–24508 Filed 9–25–15; 8:45 am]
                                              this subject which supports a priority                  FD&C Act, the priority review user fee                  BILLING CODE 4164–01–P
                                              review multiplier in the range of 1.48 to               is due (i.e. the obligation to pay the fee
                                                                                                      is incurred) when a sponsor notifies
                                              2.35 (Ref. 1). The multiplier derived by
                                                                                                      FDA of its intent to use the voucher.                   DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
                                              FDA falls well below the midpoint of
                                                                                                      Section 529(c)(4)(B) of the FD&C Act                    HUMAN SERVICES
                                              this range. Using FY 2014 figures, the
                                                                                                      specifies that the application will be
                                              costs of a priority and standard review                 considered incomplete if the priority                   National Institutes of Health
                                              are estimated using the following                       review user fee and all other applicable
                                              formula:                                                user fees are not paid in accordance                    National Institute on Deafness and
                                              (29 a × 1.67) + (19 a) = $268,974,000                   with FDA payment procedures. In                         Other Communication Disorders;
                                                                                                      addition, section 529(c)(4)(C) specifies                Notice of Meeting
                                                 Where ‘‘a’’ is the cost of a standard                that FDA may not grant a waiver,
                                              review and ‘‘a times 1.67’’ is the cost of                                                                         Pursuant to section 10(d) of the
                                                                                                      exemption, reduction, or refund of any
                                              a priority review. Using this formula,                                                                          Federal Advisory Committee Act, as
                                                                                                      fees due and payable under this section
                                              the cost of a standard review for NME                                                                           amended (5 U.S.C. App.), notice is
                                                                                                      of the FD&C Act. Beginning with FDA’s
                                              NDAs and BLAs is calculated to be                                                                               hereby given of a meeting of the Board
                                                                                                      appropriation for FY 2015, the annual
                                              $3,989,000 (rounded to the nearest                                                                              of Scientific Counselors, NIDCD.
                                                                                                      appropriation language states                              The meeting will be open to the
                                              thousand dollars) and the cost of a                     specifically that priority review user
                                              priority review for NME NDAs and                                                                                public as indicated below, with
                                                                                                      fees authorized by 21 U.S.C. 360n and                   attendance limited to space available.
                                              BLAs is 1.67 times that amount, or                      360ff (section 529 of the FD&C Act)                     Individuals who plan to attend and
                                              $6,662,000 (rounded to the nearest                      shall be credited to this account, to                   need special assistance, such as sign
                                              thousand dollars). The difference                       remain available until expended.’’ (Pub.                language interpretation or other
                                              between these two cost estimates, or                    L. 113–235, Section 5, Division A, Title                reasonable accommodations, should
                                              $2,673,000, represents the incremental                  VI).                                                    notify the Contact Person listed below
                                              cost of conducting a priority review                       The rare pediatric disease priority                  in advance of the meeting.
                                              rather than a standard review.                          review fee established in the new fee                      The meeting will be closed to the
                                                 For the FY 2016 fee, FDA will need                   schedule must be paid for any                           public in accordance with the
                                              to adjust the FY 2014 incremental cost                  application that is received on or after                provisions set forth in sections
                                                                                                      October 1, 2015. In order to comply                     552b(c)(6), title 5 U.S.C., as amended for
                                              by the average amount by which FDA’s
                                                                                                      with this requirement, the sponsor must                 the review, discussion, and evaluation
                                              average costs increased in the 3 years
                                                                                                      contact FDA before providing official                   of individual intramural programs and
                                              prior to FY 2015, to adjust the FY 2014
                                                                                                      notification of its intent to use the                   projects conducted by the NATIONAL
                                              amount for cost increases in FY 2015.                   voucher.
                                              That adjustment, published in the                                                                               INSTITUTE ON DEAFNESS AND
                                                                                                         FDA will issue an invoice to the                     OTHER COMMUNICATION
                                              Federal Register on August 3, 2015 (see                 sponsor who has incurred a rare
                                              80 FR 46028 at 46029), is 2.0266 percent                                                                        DISORDERS, including consideration of
                                                                                                      pediatric disease priority review                       personnel qualifications and
                                              for the most recent year, not                           voucher fee when it receives the
                                              compounded. Increasing the FY 2014                                                                              performance, and the competence of
                                                                                                      sponsor’s notification of intent to use                 individual investigators, the disclosure
                                              incremental priority review cost of                     the voucher. The invoice will include
                                              $2,673,000 by 2.0266 percent results in                                                                         of which would constitute a clearly
                                                                                                      instructions on how to pay the fee via                  unwarranted invasion of personal
                                              an estimated cost of $2,727,000                         wire transfer or check.
                                              (rounded to the nearest thousand                                                                                privacy.
                                                                                                         As noted in section II, if a sponsor
                                              dollars). This is the rare pediatric                                                                              Name of Committee: Board of Scientific
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                                                                                                      uses a rare pediatric disease priority
                                              disease priority review user fee amount                 review voucher for a human drug                         Counselors, NIDCD.
                                              for FY 2016 that must be submitted with                                                                           Date: October 26–27, 2015.
                                                                                                      application, the sponsor would incur                      Closed: October 26, 2015, 8:00 a.m. to 8:30
                                              a priority review voucher for a human                   the rare pediatric disease priority review              a.m.
                                              drug application in FY 2016, in addition                voucher fee in addition to any PDUFA                      Agenda: To review and evaluate personal
                                              to any PDUFA fee that is required for                   fee that is required for the application.               qualifications and performance, and
                                              such an application.                                    The sponsor would need to follow                        competence of individual investigators.



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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
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ActionNotice.
ContactRobert J. Marcarelli, Office of Financial Management, Food and Drug Administration, 8455 Colesville Rd., COLE-14202F, Silver Spring, MD 20993-0002, 301-796-7223.
FR Citation80 FR 58262 

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